Toggle-nut.



PATENTED OUT. 3, 1905.

P. D. OGDEN.

TOGGLE NUT.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 20,1905.

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' TOGGLE-NUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed May 20, 1905. Serial No. 261,377.

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Be it known that I, FREDRIC D. OGDEN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inToggle-Nuts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to toggle-nuts such as are used on bolts or screws,particularly where these are required to be inserted in an aperture in awall or the like. It provides a cheap and strong nut which may be easilyinserted in place and which will afford an efficient engagement with thebolt.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a toggle-nut embodying my inventionwith a bolt engaged therein. Fig. 2 shows the bolt and nut as the sameis ready to be placed in operative position. Fig. 3 shows a bolt and nutoperative to secure an insulator to a wall or the like.

1 designates a bolt, which may be of any desired form, the threaded endof which is engaged with a body 21 of a nut 2. Shown as forming part ofthe body 21 is aflange 22, approximately at a right angle with the bodyand pivotally secured, by means of a rivet 3, to a flat sheet-metalplate 4, the arms of which extend to a nearly equal distance from therivet 3. One arm is made a littlelonger or a little heavier than theother, so that when freely supported on the rivet 3 the bar 4: will dropinto the position shown in Fig. 2. It is then ready to be passed into anaperture 51 in a wall 5 and on being moved slightly may be drawn up, sothat its arms engage with the inner side of the wall, when the bolt 1may be screwed home and firmly held in position. I have shown the boltas securlng an insulator 6 to the wall 5; but it is of courseobviterfere with the movement. of the bolt 1 through the nut-body 21. Itwill also be seen that the pivotal bar or plate 4 is advantageous inthat it permits a direct engagement of the bolt in the aperture 51 eventhough the inner side of the wall 5, against which the plate bears, isirregular or uneven.

Without specifying materials or enumerating equivalents, what I claimis 1. A toggle-nut comprising a threaded nut proper having a body and aflange extending at approximately a right angle with said body, and abar the length of which is greater than the width of said nut pivoted onsaid flange.

2. A toggle-nut comprising a nut proper formed from sheet metal having athreaded body and a flange at approximately a right angle with saidbody,and a'flat metal bar pivoted to the outer side of said flange and in aplane parallel therewith.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

FREDRIO D. OGDEN.

Witnesses:

HENRY G. LAMB, J os. KENNEDY.

